Pop Culture Baby Name Game 2011!

Today is Britney Spears’s birthday. (Happy 30th, B!) And you know what happens every year when Brit’s birthday rolls around: the Pop Culture Baby Name Game!

What’s the game all about? Well, we try to predict which pop culture-inspired baby names will appear on the SSA’s official baby name list for the very first time in 2011.

Think back to all the big pop culture events of 2011 (and late 2010). Sports, television, politics, technology, movies, music, books, video games, and so forth. What brand-new baby names do you think they inspired in 2011?

15 thoughts on “Pop Culture Baby Name Game 2011!”

Pretty much all the names on Once Upon a Time are pretty normal: Henry, James, Mary, Regina, along those lines.

I think some of the new names will be of course celebrity inspired.
For boys, probably Crosby (Sidney Crosby related), surnames like Campbell and Baylor, some nouveau choices like Maxton, Rio, Kiptyn and Chevy, probably some creative spellings like Braedyn, Emory, Kamdyn, Kooper. Some older names are likely to return, Harvey and Leif come to mind, also nicknames like Zeke.

I’m betting on Florence. Only 75 babies were named Florence last year, but I could see it hitting the list. Besides that it’s hugely popular in the UK and Canada, but the group Florence and the Machine have become quite the media darlings, so the name is getting a lot of exposure.

I’m would hope people wouldn’t name their kids names for Game of Throne charecters, I love the novels (haven’t seen the show yet, I don’t have HBO) some of the names are strange but I do like the name Bran.

@Kennith – Potter is a good one. I’m surprised it’s never been on the list, actually. (Then again, if it couldn’t make the list at the height of Harry Potter-mania a few years ago, maybe it doesn’t stand much of a chance anymore?)